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I A MONDAY. DECEMBER 24. 19S2 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON rTRIBUM ""CvMvona in Southern Orecon ReadaTfte MUTribun1 "ubllshed Daily exceptSaturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 13 Norther 3.. Ph.77a-Bll ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertliinl Manar r-va a 1 r T LATHAM. Bui. Mir ERIC VI ALLEN JR., Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor uarrv fHlPM AN. Telae Editor rnruARn jkwett. SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSUNUircuwuwnj" Entered at fcecond claaa matter at Medlord. urea on unaer (iw u. March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ru Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5.00 Slncle Copy (Mailed) Juc By Cainei And Motor R""'-, Daily and Sunday 1 year i'-OO Dally and Sunday I mo. 1.7a Sunday Only 1 mo. 500 Carrie! and Vcndora Cop.Y 100 OfHeiarPaper of City of Bedford . Official Paper of Jackion County United Prew International rtill Leated Wire U. P. I Telepjiolo Newaplcturea MEMBER. Of AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advert'lalnl Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOC' ATES Ot'icee In New York. Cnl caco Detroit. San rranciaco. Loa Angelra Seattle. Portland Den'-er. NATION A I NEWIPAPII aUSUSHMS association editorial sicQtin Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from tha tiles of Tha Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dac. 24, 19S2 (Tuasday) Ginger Rogers is apcndlng the holiday season with her mother at the Rogers' ranch on the Rogue river near Shady Cove. Jennings Pierce was elected 1853 president ot the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce at a noon meeting today. 20 YEARS AGO Dac. 24, 1942 (Wadnaaday) Bert Luman, Mcdford, re turns from service In Austra lia with U.S.. Army. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of ruralites A-cardcd In the burg Thursday in the final getting ready for Good St. Nick, alias Kris alias Santa Claus." Cities Without Newspapers A major circus is playing the New York Coli seum, but a great many Manhattanites who haven t seen the posters don t know about it. A Washington, D.C., comedian is making his New York debut at the Blue Angel night club, but who's to know? A singer of considerable national reputation drew only seven customers to a Cleveland spot one recent evening. These are only a few of the side effects of the newspaper strikes sandbagging New York and Cleveland. The blow to Christmas retail sales is too obvious to detail. Suffice it to say that if Chrismas business doesn't hit a record high, the newspaper strikes will be largely to blame. IXHAT'S a city without newspapers like? " There is no disposition here to discuss the merits of either strike. The only purpose is to tot up the score, to point out some of the things Clevelanders and New Yorkers are missing. News, obviously. Not even with tremendously augumented coverage can television and radio replace the daily newspaper. There is little or no "in depth" treatment of the news. And local news can be covered only scantily at best. You might not even know that one of your friends died. This is not a erim ioke. The New York strike was only in its seventh day when the "Wall Street Journal" reported : "Funeral directors say attendance at funerals is down, and florists are selling fewer funeral sprays than usual." Its no news that people as well as store man agements miss advertising. They don't know which movie is playing where, even though the theaters have taken to the air in a big way. Open ing a legitimate play in New York is murder without those opening night reviews. The Miami-Nebraska Gotham Bowl football game on Dec. 14, for which a crowd of 20,000 to 30,000 had been anticipated, drew 6,100. (The pro Giants, whose fans are loyal as the subway alumni of Notre Dame, lured 62,000 to the same stadium the following day, and some 15,000 equally steadfast pro basketball fans turned up at the Garden on Dec. 11 for a doubleheader.) "It' Fine When Do You Think We'll Get The Other Wall. And The Roof?" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name nd address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribuna reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent tht views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the caie. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 30 YEARS AGO Sac. 24. 1932 (Friday) Stale highway commission gives approval to construction work on Ashland-Talcnt sec tion of Highway 09. Winnie Ruth Judd, charged with murder of two women friends, appears before Ari zona grand jury. 40 YEARS AGO Dac. 24, 1922 (Saturday) Poner Neff announces plans to construct a business building at northeast corner of North Central avc. and East Sixth st. Susanna H. Carter, Jack sonville, elected vice presi dent of Oregon Stale Teach ers association. SO YEARS AGO Dac. 24. 1912 (Monday) Burglar carrying loot, In cluding sack of flour and two sides of bacon, walks into arms of policeman while leav ing scene of theft in Mcdford. Entire Mcdford tire depart ment, Including Chief Eugene Ainann, on sick list; cit; offi cials request men with fire f i gluing experience to help out. What's Your I.Q.? Nina at tan cartact It iiiaarlerj avtn at ei9ht li axcallant; fiva at ail it aoed. 1. In wlmt country is the famous village of Waterloo? 2. From where do most of the world's diamonds come? 3. Approximately how many square feel are there in an acre? 4. Arrange in sire from largest to smallest: earth, moon and sun. 3. What was St. Paul's trade? 6. What measurement of the calendar Is calculated from the time it lakes the moon to circle the earth? 7. What amendment t ) the U. S. Constitution freed Hie slaves? B. What is alluvial soil 9. What two South Amer ican countries have no sea coast? 10. Which President first poke over the radio? Aniwarai 1. Balqlum. 2, Kimbarly, South Africa. 3. 43.380. 4. Sun, aarth, moon. S. Tant making. . Month, 7. Thirtaanth. I. Soil dapoiltad by water. 9. Bolivia and Par. ajuay. 19. Harding, in 1923. CONSIDERS orriCE Washington - Itfli - Pence Corps Director Snrgent Shri ver said Sunday he would consider running for gover nor of Illinois If the oppor tunity arose at some suitable time In the future. CDITORIALS those lovely conflicting opin--J ions sports, the columns and the comics, stock market quotations, specialized news (about business or labor, say) medical advice cross word puzzles and other games, entertainment reading, home-making and other woman-only news all this goes by the boards. No help-wanted ads, no apartments for rent nor houses for sale. A leading personnel agency in Manhattan says its job applicants have drop- Kringic, ped to half since the strike began. Charitable appeals by the papers notably the Fresh Air Fund of the N..Y. "Herald Tribune" and the Neediest Cases Fund of the N. Y. "Times" have been hit especially hard. And psychologists say that some people are so dependent upon news papers that they will be seriously atiected by the absence of their daily ration of print, though the mental specialists disagree on whether the reactions will be good or bad. The strikes have consequences far beyond their own communities. Bowatcr, the Canadian newsnrint comnany. on Dec. 19 announced it would lav off 500 emulovees if the New York strike isn't settled by Christmas. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wn tz on Dec. 19 warned that the New York strike might go on all winter. And "Variety" speculates that "pos sibly three of the seven (struck) Manhattan- based dailies will not publish again should the strike continue for a length of time." E.R.R. The Fey Ones. As Mr. Santavana said: "SANITY IS MAD NESS PUT TO GOOD USES." I think there is a gentle madness w hich comes upon us in the Christmas season, generally un noticed by those of similar derangement. We are reinhabited by the child which once we were. And live for a time in an elfin nether world. And our childish honesty shines through. We become less ashamed of our need of others and speak of it. And because we know we have no enemies, the future is filled more with prom ise than threat. We suddenly see that we would not trade this time we live for another. And the insight of our delightful Christmas mania reveals beauty and even greatness among people who are de nied it only by our normal unawareness. The sadness of what we have not become is lightened by the child's sense of possessing within himself the whole world, and the season's hint of immortality. And mothers feel as if they are dressed up in their motliei's' high heels. And fathers laugh like boys again. And we pay more heed to who we are than who we seem to be. In this time there really are flying reindeer. And just over the hill a stable bathed in starlight. And every mad one of us is the grandest thing of all a magician who produces for every story a happy ending. So Merry Christinas to all. And the heartiest halloo to the fey ones who go about their un knowing mission of rescurrecting once a year man's dream. W. W. Straley, President of Pacific Northewest Bell, in the company magazine, "Cascades." As this is written, there are no earth-shaking develop ments in the big news. So Let's fall back on the weather. DO YOU remember the story the other day to the effect that the Weather Bureau has gone out on a limb with a 90-day predic tion the first time in its long history it has been willing to guess that far ahead? The general drift of the long forecast was that one of the big- high-up jet streams has gone on the loose and wandered away down to the southward. As a result, the Bureau's experts said, it looks like a hard winter for the Eastern United States but a normal to mild winter for the rest of the nation especially the Pacific Northwest, where ESSENTIALLY ABOVE NORMAL temperatures and below-normal rain and snow can be expected. To be sure, we've had some fog. There are cynics among us who maintain that at times the fog has been so thick that you could cut it with a knife and pile it up beside the road in blocks. But cynics are ex tremists. Their opinions have to be taken with a grain of salt. All in all, giving a little here and taking a little there, it has been a wonderful fall, and it is beginning to look like the Weather Bureau sharps may have known what they were talking about when they issued their first 90-day forecast. WELL- looks like the Bu reau's experts may have known what they were talk ing about. Dispatches tell us that "bitter cold and heavy snow slapped the North and East on the last full day of autumn. Snow fell from Kan sas and Nebraska to the mountains of Virginia and ac cumulations of it up to five inches are expected before it quits." The temperature tumbled to 12 below at Walcrtown, N.Y. Highways had already become hazardous. Four traf fic deaths were caused in Southern Illinois alone by slick highways. And so on. HOW ABOUT our Pacific Northwest and the blue bird weather that has been predicted for us? So far, we haven't been doing too badly especially down here in Southern Oregon. ONE question: What dors flip Farmpr's Almanac say about it? If the Farmers Almanac goes along with the Weather Bureau, we can sit back in confident expectation of an extraordinarily beautiful fall and winter. I1UT- " I'm unable to find what the Farmers Almanac has to say about it. The book stores I've consulted have no copies of this noted publication, without which no home li brary is complete. Docs any resident of this area have a copy? It would be interesting to know what po sition the Farmers Almanac takes in this matter. It goes the Weather Bureau consid erably better in the way of confidence in its predictions. It issues its predictions a WHOLE YEAR ahead. AND WHAT about Douglas county's Mount Nebo goats which for half a cen tury have been far-famed wealhcr predictors. Their fair weather habitat is high up on Ncbo and their un erring custom is said to be to COME DOWN several days in advance of a change to bad weather. Where are they now? Are they high up? Or low down? Softwood Lumber Industry Assaults Puerto Rico Market Washington - HOT - The U.S. sotfwood lumber Indus try has begun an all-out as sault on the $3 million a year Puerto Rican lumber market, which Canada has had sewed up tiRht for two years. Lumber nulls in urcgou and Washington State Have been lining up to take advant age of a new law aimed at narrowing the price gap tic tween Canadian and U.S. lumber on the Caribbean is land. The law, passed in the closing days of Congress, par tially lifts the restriction that required products shipped be tween U.S. ports to be car ried in US.-flag vessels. It allows lumber to be ship pod to Puerto Rico in foreign flag vcsslos - whose rates are as much as 40 per cent below U.S. rates if the Maritime Administration (inds that no U.S. ships are "rea sonably available." Priced' Out Ot Markat No U.S. lumber of the type Involved has been sold In Puerto Rico in the past two have received tentative or fi nal permission hope to sell at least 20 million board feet in Puerto Rico by next Oct. 23, expiration date of the one year experimental law. This would equal nearly one-third the island's total 1961 con sumption. Shipmanti Daclinad U. S. lumber shipments, which once dominated the Puerto Rican market, declin ed steadily from 19 million board feet in 1931 to nothing in 1961 and 1962. Canadian shipments rose from little more than one million board feet in 1951 to 73 million last year and 57 million in the first nine months of this year. The Puerto Rican market was worth about S3. 2 million to Canada last year and about $3 million in the first nine months of this year. Total Canadian softwood lumber sales in the United States Inst year wore about $260 million, and are esti mated to have increased this year. The U.S. lumber industry "By lhair word" To the Editor: I, too, wonder at the form of tomorrow's communication. In my foolish ness I vision all good men living the universal language of Ecumenicity no matter their tongue. In my years of a modern martyrdom it was imparted to me that all words are either good or evil after the thought that gave them birth none are neutral! You bless or curse with your every word. Millions worked and now work with words, but this awful truth is news to most. Yet a holy man early said "By their words ye shall know them ". And indeed we shall tomorrow! Our heirs will know the genitive worth of a word in stantly and thus escape anv evil usage as we do physical hazard today. Communication tomorrow will give all good peoples this perfect enlighten ment in their youth. Thus all of them will speak and write naturally in the service of God. Communication will be the world motion of the Spirit then unifying all the worth of the earth, exorcizing all athesism of its scientific, psy chiatric and communistic evils in their associations with the good. Our heirs will thus live in the Light that gave us life; the godless millions in the dy ing tight they have ravished technically from the firma ment of Heavens. Man's indiscriminate usage of both good and evil words without thought of their primal context is the genesis of world confusion and most offend. In the beginning was the Word. I humbly relate this unutterable universal har mony rising far above the angelic choirs as sounding the Infinite Majesty of God. Rising from man's first pleas ing sound our earthly words faintly echo this most wondcr ous of all Mystery. And this rising echo our words will become the infallible communication of tomorrow. In those days our heirs will never err in thought or word or deed fur this awful Truth will have become their way of me and the wonder of it will be their universal language, rising forever, even through the far wonders of the new heaven and earth, in praise of God. And the power of these' true words of our communicative tomorrow will so exorcise world thought that our chil drens' children as they write and speak will ad vent a thousand years of Peace. William Thomas Cuddy V.A. Domiciliary White City, Ore. much in the news, and so often on the ballots. Its pur pose is prevention of and re duction in the number of den tal caries its value in this area is proven, despite claims to the contrary by opponents to the measure. Its "poison ous" quality is scarcely an issue when viewed in the light of the tiny amounts necessary. To illustrate this, let me use iodine a substance very well known to be absolutely necessary to body function, yet poisonous in larger amounts, also well known. The same is true of most medi cines and many minerals. Chlorination is another matter entirely, with abso lutely no connection with fluoridation. Its purpose does have something to do with its poisonous quality ft is add ed to the water in extremely minute quantities as a puri fier, to make the water safe to drink and cook with. Its use is mandatory in areas where water is impure or where there is a question of contamination such as there is now in our area. Fortunate ly, this generally is not the case here, and chlorination is only a temporary necessity. An interesting thing about chlor ine is' that it is another neces sary item for body function, taken in as sodium chloride (table salt). I hope, Mrs. Henderson, that I have in no way insulted you, as the only intention I have had is to correct a mis conception. (Miss) Dayle Ann Stratton, 804 Bennett ave., Medford. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF U"ILM STAR Paul Newman recalls the time he appeared as guest star on Garry Moore's "I've Got A Secret" TV panel show. The whole panel was lured up to a ball gams ai jdimee oiaaium so that Newman, disguised as a white-coated vendor, could sell each of them a hot dog. Nobody recog nized him. Henry Mor gan even complained that he had been short changed. When Newman appeared on the TV show a few evenings later, the panel didn't come within a mile of his "secret." The late and famous edi tor, Ellery Sedgwick, offer ed this challenging advice to a graduating class at Amherst: "It is mv constant miiraum. to persuade young men just starting their business careers that, instead of joining some company organized, successful, and rcil mcnted, they should sign up with a leaky ship, scrape down her decks, caulk her seams, refit her sails; for it is on the slipperiest decks that adventure beckons, and a speedier chance provided for rising in the world." Overheard at a public school recess: "My father once ran awav with a circus when he was a boy but the police caught him and made him bring it back." At a bridge party: "My son's new girl friend Is so hefty sha could play fullback for Ohio State. You know what she wears on her charm bracelet? Old license plates!" In a men's locker room at the Century Golf Club: "My wife cm now talk at the rate of 140 words a minute with gusts ud to 175." P 1963. by Bennelt Celt. Distributed by Kms Features Syndicate Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises. Inc. Likes Program To the Editor: I should like to ask the good readers of M.T. if they are listening to the startling information that is being given each week dav on Station KRVC at 7:45 a.m. If possible, it would be well to do it. Mrs. R. E. Dandles 1300 Slcwart ave. Medford was Santa's Childhood To the Editor: When Santa was a little lad I wonder, was he good or bad? If he ever shot a rubber band I'll bet his mother slapped his hand. He might have even chased the girls, And taken scissors to their curls. It seems to me that he good. And helped his mother bring ' in wood. He d do the disl I night, , And always tried to do them I right. No one knows just what he did. When Santa was a little kid! Janet Frederick (age 111) 172 Whitman Place Mcdford every KRVC Plug To t he Editor: I wish to express my thanks to you tnd to Mr. Bulniun (or his letter printed in the Dec. 19 paper. I received that poem too. "His Name at the Top." 1 wish everyone within the Advertiser Control To the Editor: As we re member, it was last week's Thursday air-wave tribunal that took our daily newspa per's editor to task for de fending the printed word as less susceptible to advertiser control than that of the radio and TV. There were ramifi cations in the mostly female mc-toism chanty, but the ad vertiser control appeared the meat of the interesting dis cussion, of Wednesday edi torial. Now my first-hand experi ence in seeking material for the hoped-to-be-printed word, leaning it to the requirements of the publication that pro duces that all important pay check, checking cut-lines, gal ley proofing for the clacking, ever hungry Linotypes, places me firmly on the MT editors side. For all this involved channeling does put the ad vertiser on the fringe con trol of what docs or doesn't get printed. So very different is my ad mittedly limited first-hand gathering of news for the radio media to the receiving sets. For here, to my con cern and astonishment, the advertiser is right in the mid dle between. To illustrate. let's go back to the late twen ties when a carbon-crumble mike was acquired and acci dentally made to work very well, relayed through a play er to the parlor radio. Wel come visitors one evening were our photographer tilli cum, J. Vern Shangle. and wife Ruth. With my wife and others entertaining, my ab sence was unnoticed. The ex tolling of the one time Shan gle Personality Porlraits from the radio was little noted till it verged into some sly digs at said Personality Portraits. Poking my head out of ail improvised pantry radio room, my friend, J. Vern, was seen striding to the tele phone, eyes blazing fire. Not ing my guilty grin, lie chang ed course and came at p'c with a wild and lethal packed swing, which luckily was side stepped. It is hoped friend .1. Vern and Ruth will go along with this, for it does seem worth while in high-lighting the in timacy of the advertiser with radio and TV. However, let me add how much wo enjoy and appreciate the sponsors who make it possible on oc casion In lift my voice from the multitude of the mules in protest or indorsmcnt of what goes on about us, cvci commercials when not too long or loud relative to the NO. VIRGINIA There is no ruddy fat man with merry eyes and a white beard, who comes down the chira ney at night to re ward little boys and girls for being good. Because, you see, Vir ginia, all over the world there are mil- Hams lions of little boys and girls who have been as good as good can be but they get no toy,s, and some times they awake on Christ mas morning without enough food to cat. There are fathers and moth ers, Virginia, who have been appointed by God to love their children and they give them love, although they cannot always give them pres ents. And these fathers and mothers are more wonder ful and magical and mys terious than Santa Claus could ever be. They bring something infinitely more precious than dolls and trains to their children they bring the mark of God's love down to every boy and girl. And. sometimes, a v e n these fathers and mothers are taken away. But there are others in the world, di vinely touched, who look pcrintendent Charles A. Mey er, of the District 6 School board, for the school bus, supplying transportation for the children, the American Legion Post 129. for use of the hall, Joyce Roberts for the entertainment, her piano selections and Christmas re cordings. Economy Market, Fabers super Market, Paul sen and Gates Super Market, Central Point, and sens Dairy. Medford, whose thoughtful donations helped supply the refreshments tor the youngsters; Scott Hamil ton, driver of the school bus; the hostesses serving, and the students from the Crater High School. Future Home makers of America, co-hostess . Cay HalU-tt. president Donald E. Lacy Ernie Kennedy'. Publicity Chairman Bill Russell Rick Taylor Vernon Capps Robert Bailey Central Point Jaycccs Central Point. Ore after lhesa children and share with them their mea ger possessions. Compared with this mir acle of care and tenderness, Santa Claus is a pala figurs of fantasy. For he, you see. only rewards boys and girls who have been "good." But in the eyes of God, and par ents, all boys and girls are truly good at heart. Presents at Christmas ara fun, of course, but do you imagine, Virginia, that tha children with the most pres ents are the happiest ones? When there is little love in a home, there is little merri ment and without merri ment, the doll is dust and the train is tin. All over the world, on Christmas morning, children will be waking up without a visit from Santa Claus or with a gift you would hardly look at, an orange, an extra slice of bread, a frayed piece of string. Yet if there is someone w.'io loves them, who frolics with them and heals them, they have a greater gift than any fat man in a tight red suit could possibly bring them. There are fathers who work for their children, and moth ers who sing to their children, and God who gives fathers the strength to work when they are weak, and mothers the spirit to sing when they are sad. No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus there does not need to be. Milk Production Lowest in 37 Years Corvallis - ll'PH - Milk pro duction in Oregon in 1962 Jorgcn- dropped to the lowest level in 37 years, Oregon State Uni versity said today. The decline was caused mostly by smaller numbers of dairy farms and total number of milk cows, the school's ex- i tension agricultural service said. The slate's output during the first 11 months of tho year slood at 1.18 billion pounds, down 31 million from i the same months in 1961. Total production for the year I was sure to be less than 1.1 billion pounds (or the first lime since 1925, the school I said. years. U S. lumbermen said j has asked the Tariff Com the high transportation costs mission for quota and tariff under the old regulations restrictions against Canadian priced them out of the mar- lumber, but no decision is ex ket. peeled before January. One big C . nrm ine listening range of KRVC of our wav' of life, would listen to Carl Mclnlirr Same f'r tv i Jew Jersey, S1u comfortably at home. watching that h'ard.to-bclievc appreciates i acrobatic rtisolav from far away Sweden. Fir all in all. it's all worth while a oart of Collingswond 4.i to 8 15 a m Anyone who vooci mu.su- should slay tuned into KRVC. 1350 on votir dial I II I. M (Name on file) Central Point. Ore. Georgia Pacific Co. of Port land, Ore. received final approval to ship to Puerto Rico In foreign (lag vessels Dec. 14. It plans its first ship ment in late January or early February. Three other firms received tentative approval Dec. II and are expected to be given the (inal nod soon. Four more have applied. The four which already NAMES ASSISTANT Palm Beach, Fla - UTH The vacation While Hons. Sunday announced scleciiiu of Dr. Stafford I. Warren vice chancellor of the I'nivcr sity of California at I. geles as a special as Stafford will help and coordinate new proved federal, stale Tha Difference To the Editor: Though ob i viously sincere. I'm afraid Mrs. lima Henderson does o still tunc chlorination and fluoridation confused - and ; within the limns of my own i knowledge and without em- of our loved America. F. J. Clifford Rt. -. Box 2U0F Central point. Ore. cal programs to comKit the! effects of menial retardation.! An-; ployim; the subtle intolleclu.il issistanl. 1 insult th.il Mr. Jeiiney seems deveioo so adept a! I shall try to and int-i explain to her and others the and l(- difference between the two. Fluoridation, known, is the as issue If well so ery Shopping Tour To the Editor: The Centr.il i Point Junior Chamber ot Commerce wish to lake this I opportunity to thank the ! many mercnanis and resi dents of Central Point for the wonderful cooperation Riven us with the annual Christmas Shopping Tour, making it possible for hu youngsters to have a happier holiday sea son Also we want to thank Su- . Wrh o mm s 14 miym a'n'th."'.0" ' m ,tom h.n!. and from ma rest ara irom friendil" I? I
